Hello friend, thank you as always for listening to The Tully Show. I enjoyed speaking to film writer Brian Raftry and I think you're going to enjoy our conversation about the rise of the erotic thriller and then the rain Sharon Stone crotch reveals and all and then the demise of the erotic thriller real quick before we get into that a quick order of business I've heard from a number of people 456 people who say they abruptly stopped getting patreon content for me and assumed I'd stop posting it. I can

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boasting a partially obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood sign this is the tully show

I am your host Mike tully joining me today from the other side of the Hollywood sign a journalist and writer with a

Focus on film most importantly for our present purposes

He recently posted a piece on the ringer entitled the rise and fall of the erotic thriller hello and welcome Brian

Raptory hey Mike how are you I'm terrific. Thank you so much for for for joining me

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Did I don't pitch my stories to Bill, but I did go to the ringer and say you know

There was two things going on one is a 30th anniversary of basic instinct which is still as someone who was

16 when that movie came out that felt like a seismic kind of cultural vent

And then also this kind of weird boondoggle of a movie which I still have not been able to see

Called deep water which was we knew was coming out these Ben Affleck onto the arm of us

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